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Major EU privacy decisions against Meta’s legal basis for ads raise fresh complaints

Meta’s lead data protection regulator, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), issued the final decisions but only after more than a year of a dispute over EU DPAs who disagreed with its draft decision (which did not object to Meta claiming contractual necessity to micro-target ads); and, at the last, after incorporating a binding decision by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), which settled the dispute by forcing the DPC to reject Meta’s claim of contractual necessity.